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Post by JosephD on May 20, 2018 17:43:23 GMT
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Post by acookertv on May 20, 2018 19:39:31 GMT
I felt a bit let down by last nights show for a Tina Fey hosted episode. But I loved her monologue mocking all the cameos!
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Post by Critical on May 20, 2018 22:11:26 GMT
I was disappointed too, acooker. I was really looking forward to Tina's episode. I thought that royal wedding sketch was stupid. It was exactly what Brits think Americans think about it. It could have been funny and clever if the writers knew ANYTHING about the royals beyond the surface stuff. It felt lazy.
After Donald Glover's fantastic job as host and musical guest, this episode felt like a total letdown. DG was SO good! As a host AND as a musical guest. IMO, he was the best we've seen to do both jobs in one episode.
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Post by JosephD on May 20, 2018 23:53:58 GMT
I agree about the royal wedding sketch. I didn't care for it either but I figured since I don't follow the royals like so many of you, maybe I just wasn't getting the humor. Either way, I swapped out the video for a better one. I think we'd all rather watch Ryan Gosling anyway.  |
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Post by Critical on May 21, 2018 2:39:15 GMT
I'd pretty much always rather watch Ryan Gosling. That reminds me of the (I think) first episode of Grace and Frankie where Robert mail ordered a chair with RG's face on the cushion. Grace took it when she moved out with the parting line of "If anyone's going to sit on Ryan Gosling's face, it's going to be ME" LOL!
I know SNL likes to get hosts who actually have projects to promote, but I'd love it if they got Jon Hamm (who hasn't been working so much) back as host. He is so good. With a few exceptions, the hosts this season were pretty lackluster. The other stuff - especially the political sketches with Alec Baldwin and other "special guests" - was terrific, but not many hosts stood out, IMO.
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Post by acookertv on May 21, 2018 13:06:52 GMT
I was disappointed too, acooker. I was really looking forward to Tina's episode. I thought that royal wedding sketch was stupid. It was exactly what Brits think Americans think about it. It could have been funny and clever if the writers knew ANYTHING about the royals beyond the surface stuff. It felt lazy. After Donald Glover's fantastic job as host and musical guest, this episode felt like a total letdown. DG was SO good! As a host AND as a musical guest. IMO, he was the best we've seen to do both jobs in one episode. During the entire royal wedding sketch, I kept on waiting for Rachel Dratch and Jimmy Fallon to show up as their Boston teenager characters since it was shot in the same home video manner. If they'd done that I think it would have been a great sketch. Without them it felt like they started writing a sketch for that, and then found out Dratch wasn't available, but didn't want to scrap the set they had already designed. |
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Post by momrek06 on May 21, 2018 23:46:57 GMT
I love TF so it was great seeing her and I did love the opening but over all I was underwhelmed by the whole Finale.  The RW sketch was most definitely blah. |
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Post by momrek06 on May 21, 2018 23:50:14 GMT
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Post by Critical on May 24, 2018 4:20:29 GMT
I was disappointed too, acooker. I was really looking forward to Tina's episode. I thought that royal wedding sketch was stupid. It was exactly what Brits think Americans think about it. It could have been funny and clever if the writers knew ANYTHING about the royals beyond the surface stuff. It felt lazy. After Donald Glover's fantastic job as host and musical guest, this episode felt like a total letdown. DG was SO good! As a host AND as a musical guest. IMO, he was the best we've seen to do both jobs in one episode. During the entire royal wedding sketch, I kept on waiting for Rachel Dratch and Jimmy Fallon to show up as their Boston teenager characters since it was shot in the same home video manner. If they'd done that I think it would have been a great sketch. Without them it felt like they started writing a sketch for that, and then found out Dratch wasn't available, but didn't want to scrap the set they had already designed. Okay, that totally would have redeemed that sketch for me! It felt like something else was supposed to happen and then it never did. |
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Post by momrek06 on Sept 21, 2018 18:06:42 GMT
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Post by momrek06 on Sept 26, 2018 16:15:27 GMT
September 29 - Adam Driver With Musical Guest Kanye West
The Season 44 opener will have Kylo Ren himself, Adam Driver, once again step up as guest host.
Driver first hosted SNL back in Season 41, which led to some rather well-known sketches that ended up going viral after his episode aired, so it's no big surprise that he's been asked to return.
He most recently appeared in the Spike Lee film BlacKkKlansman, but has several projects in various state of production right now, including The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Star Wars: Episode IX.
Kanye West will make his sixth appearance as musical guest for the opening, with many assuming he's about to release Yeezus 2, even though that hasn't been confirmed yet.
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Post by lonnie on Oct 6, 2018 21:02:13 GMT
I liked watching the show when Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Kevin Nealon, Victoria Jackson, and Phil Hartman were on. I think they should poke fun at the whole spectrum of figures, instead of being more one sided.
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Post by Critical on Oct 15, 2018 0:47:48 GMT
I generally like Michael Che and Colin Jost on Weekend Update, but they really suffered in comparison to Seth Meyers when he did "Really?" with them this week.
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Oct 15, 2018 18:35:59 GMT
Right before they aired the new episode Saturday night they showed a vintage SNL episode from probably around 1976 with Paul Simon as the host. At the beginning they introduced the Not Ready for Primetime Players: Ackroyd, Curtin, Morris, Newman, Belushi, Radner, etc. It had to be the season after Chevy Chase left the show b/c he appeared in a silly bit with Paul Simon before they do the "live from NY, it's Saturday Night' into. Anyway, 2 things struck me about the show. I have to preface my remarks by saying I was a casual viewer of SNL in the early days. Around that time I was a full-time college student so TV viewing was not a big thing for me back then. The first thing I noticed about this particular episode was that even though Paul Simon was the guest host and appeared in skits, he did a crazy amount of musical numbers. George Harrison appeared also and they did a duet of "Here Comes the Sun." The second thing I noticed was how truly awful the skits were, imo. Weekend Update with Jane Curtin was just terrible...very silly. There was no 'bite' to it at all. Weekend Update with Seth was a zillion times better. Now, idk if it was just this episode that was terrible b/c as I said I was a casual viewer back then. Did anyone see the episode I am referring to?
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Post by jenniferboston1 on Oct 15, 2018 18:55:23 GMT
I liked watching the show when Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Kevin Nealon, Victoria Jackson, and Phil Hartman were on. I think they should poke fun at the whole spectrum of figures, instead of being more one sided. And David Spade. Ironically, the majority were fired and did not leave by choice. I miss Phil Hartman...every so often I wonder how his children fared after the tragedy. |
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Post by acookertv on Oct 15, 2018 19:23:00 GMT
I generally like Michael Che and Colin Jost on Weekend Update, but they really suffered in comparison to Seth Meyers when he did "Really?" with them this week. I think that Jost and Che have a totally different style than Seth (and Amy) which is why that didn't work. I wish they would have either gotten Amy to come back to do that with Seth, or let him do it solo. All in all, I was disappointed in Seth as a host. Though he's always said he wasn't good in sketches or wearing wigs, so I guess he gets points for being self-aware! The whole episode felt to me like his input as host in choosing sketches was to look out for writers who really wanted to get something on instead of doing the best material. It felt to me like the whole thing was put together by a guy who knew too much about the decisions made in choosing sketches, and gave input out of kindness instead of the best show. |
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Post by AlwaysVeg on Oct 16, 2018 17:15:48 GMT
Right before they aired the new episode Saturday night they showed a vintage SNL episode from probably around 1976 with Paul Simon as the host. At the beginning they introduced the Not Ready for Primetime Players: Ackroyd, Curtin, Morris, Newman, Belushi, Radner, etc. It had to be the season after Chevy Chase left the show b/c he appeared in a silly bit with Paul Simon before they do the "live from NY, it's Saturday Night' into. Anyway, 2 things struck me about the show. I have to preface my remarks by saying I was a casual viewer of SNL in the early days. Around that time I was a full-time college student so TV viewing was not a big thing for me back then. The first thing I noticed about this particular episode was that even though Paul Simon was the guest host and appeared in skits, he did a crazy amount of musical numbers. George Harrison appeared also and they did a duet of "Here Comes the Sun." The second thing I noticed was how truly awful the skits were, imo. Weekend Update with Jane Curtin was just terrible...very silly. There was no 'bite' to it at all. Weekend Update with Seth was a zillion times better. Now, idk if it was just this episode that was terrible b/c as I said I was a casual viewer back then. Did anyone see the episode I am referring to?I saw it, ECM. These "vintage" shows are always very interesting to me to see how their concept of humor has changed from then to now. I remember when SNL first aired in 1975, the humor was considered very biting, but often appear much less so compared with subsequent decades of the show. The episodes we're seeing have been edited down to one hour, so that's one reason why Paul Simon seemed to be singing so many times. And when you have George Harrison on, you want to hear him sing as much as possible, too. This particular Weekend Update was pretty awful, but in later shows, it was much more fun when they aired her at the desk with Dan Ackroyd. I can excuse these early shows because they were still figuring out what they were doing and where they wanted it to go. I don't recall at what point Gilda Radner started doing Roseann Rosannadanna, but that used to liven up Weekend Update, as well as her other great characters, none of which were shown in this synthesized episode, same for John Belushi, so some really good skits were edited out for this vintage episode. Also enjoyed Paul Simon then and now, particularly because he did one of the same songs. To be honest, I think the heyday of this show is over. For the past few years, very few of the skits have seemed funny to me, and they've wasted some very good hosts with sub-par material. |
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Post by acookertv on Oct 16, 2018 19:09:44 GMT
I get kind of excited each time that people talk about the show not being funny anymore, because it's usually a sign that it's about to hit a stride with some really great stuff. What I think is missing right now is recurring characters. But I think it's nice that we don't have many of them, because it means they are not recycling the same old stuff. Keenan could still be doing What's Up With That, Kate could still be doing the last call woman or the woman abducted by aliens, and they'd get laughs every time. But they are smart enough to retire things when they are loved and try new things. It takes some time, but they'll come up with some other great characters that connect.
I do think that the political writing is missing something right now, and hope that they put a focus on a strong political writer soon. It strikes me anytime I watch sketches from the 90s and early 2000s to see how different things were with Jim Downey as an uber conservative writer, balanced out with a pretty liberal minded cast. They did a good job of shining a light on all sides. Now, they fall back on the laziness of characterizations for comedy instead of making a point.
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Post by Critical on Oct 16, 2018 21:59:22 GMT
I always laugh and shake my head when people talk about how much better the early shows were. Watch a few FULL episodes and you'll see that the sketches weren't all diamonds back then either. Put together a highlights reel of almost any season and it'll look great. In between those great sketches, there were lots of clunkers.
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Post by lonnie on Nov 6, 2018 6:31:04 GMT
I don't much about a guy named Pete davidson, but I saw some bad jokes by him. He seems strange. They keep posting stories non stop for some reason about him and his ex who had licked donuts.
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Post by jenniferboston1 on Nov 6, 2018 19:59:08 GMT
I don't much about a guy named Pete davidson, but I saw some bad jokes by him. He seems strange. They keep posting stories non stop for some reason about him and his ex who had licked donuts. It's funny in a way. Pete recently made a statement that his break up wasn't anyone's business, yet, he and Grande posted CONSTANTLY on social media the entire time they were together. I thought the donut licking episode was disgusting and gross, but she did eventually apologize. Regarding this past episode, I love Jonah Hill, but I did not LOL once. , though the wigs for pugs skit was adorable. |
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Post by acookertv on Nov 6, 2018 20:15:34 GMT
I don't think it was Jonah's best hosting gig, but there were moments I enjoyed. I wish they didn't do the five timers club so often when someone hosts for the fifth time, but I like the turn they took this time with the women taking over. And I give Drew Barrymore props for being willing to do the jokes "over reacting" to things that were offensive. While Jonah Hill is known on the show for the character of the outspoken boy at that hibachi restaurant, I wish they'd retire it. It's like of like Timberlake and the bring it on down sketches. It was funny when they first did it, but they've run out of ways to make it fun. I thought Update had some good jokes, though I'll admit a few days later I don't remember any of them. I can totally understand why people are unhappy with the Pete Davidson bit, but I'll admit I thought the joke was funny because it was such an out of left field take instead of going with more common jokes about an eye patch - most involving pirates. And every time that he mentions Arianna, or that she mentions him, it makes me more convinced that their relationship was a publicity stunt and never anything real.
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Post by Critical on Nov 6, 2018 20:22:18 GMT
I didn't even watch. I can't stand Jonah Hill. Clearly, neither Pete nor Ariana are terribly mature. It was reported that he decided to omit any reference to the break-up from this past episode after there was a mention in the commercial. Then she went and released something on SM about it  Who could have predicted that relationship wouldn't work out?  |
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Post by lonnie on Nov 6, 2018 23:29:41 GMT
I don't know all of the details, but I heard pete made a joke about a veteran who lost his eye during the war for some reason? what was the point of it?
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Post by acookertv on Nov 6, 2018 23:45:33 GMT
He was flashing up pictures of various candidates and cracking jokes about their physical appearance.
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Post by ccl on Nov 7, 2018 0:41:17 GMT
He made fun of his own appearance, too. It was a joke. The “target” of it said he wasn’t thin-skinned but still complained. Which is his right just as it was Davidson’s right to make the quip. Humour is subjective, not everyone has to like everything.
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Post by acookertv on Nov 7, 2018 1:23:03 GMT
Pete Davidson has cracked more jokes about his dad (a firefighter) being killed in the World Trade Center than pretty much any other subject. There are some people who joke about painful things, and others who will not touch such subjects. I totally respect the feelings of anyone who does not want to joke about such matters. But at the same time, I totally respect those who find it helpful to joke about the pain. People process emotions differently. The best jokes have a high degree of risk. Pete took a risk. He landed it for some and failed terribly for others. Par for the course with SNL. But he was true to his brand of humor and that’s what he was hired for, and what he’s frequently put on Update for.
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Post by acookertv on Nov 7, 2018 1:56:11 GMT
Lorne Michaels has said many times that a great episode of SNL will have 2 sketches that are funny, 2 that are terrible, and the rest in the middle .... and what those sketches are will be different for everyone. They are doing comedy for a broad audience, and don’t hit the same peaks for everyone.
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Post by acookertv on Nov 11, 2018 19:44:27 GMT
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Post by momrek06 on Mar 3, 2019 16:54:38 GMT
I thought last night was pretty funny!!! SATURDAY MARCH 2, 2019!!! I am not aware of this comedian actor John Mulaney but he was HYSTERICAL!!!  tv.avclub.com/john-mulaney-and-bill-hader-return-to-lift-a-great-sa-1833016512I think he was a presenter at the Oscars??? Oh and BILL HADER stopped by!!!  I have a question for those that watch .... what is up with Pete Davidson .... he does not seem like he even wants to be on the show anymore .... every time he is in a skit now (like the last few months) he has to make it a point to look over at the CUE CARDS and its ANNOYING esp for a long time SNL cast member. De Niro does it when he is guest starring but I give him a pass BUT that is annoying as well because De Niro makes it BEYOND obvious he has no clue what the lines are .... but PETE????? I mean when a cast member is talking to you in a skit and you are looking in the complete opposite direction so you can read the lines????  I am reading he is with KB now. Maybe he will start to feel better from AG breaking it off with him. THAT whole relationship was off the rails crazy. Meet, date, get engaged all in like an HOUR.  |
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Who could have predicted that relationship wouldn't work out? 
